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so really, this is just trying to save their political ass. i am glad they are supporting it this time. at least some republicans are. i am not sure. there are a lot of the tea partyers and red necks and conservatives out there who are going to say, hey, they broke the law. i'm sorry. these arguments. we can't reward them for braking the law, you know. the pat buchanan approach. round them all up and send them back. 866-55-press. i bet you we are going to hear that. i am not sure this is even with these four republicans going to make it. >> peter: remember, it was this last election cycle that we were talking about self-deportation. the republican candidate >> bill: that was romney's solution. >> peter: making life so terrible for immigrants here that they would leave on their own. >> bill: they would all leave as if. right? >> peter: people are talking about this online in twitter and in the chat room. first on twitter @bpshow. the g.o.p. helping with immigration for votes, not because it's the right thing to do. >> bill: absolutely s >> pete
so really, this is just trying to save their political ass. i am glad they are supporting it this time. at least some republicans are. i am not sure. there are a lot of the tea partyers and red necks and conservatives out there who are going to say, hey, they broke the law. i'm sorry. these arguments. we can't reward them for braking the law, you know. the pat buchanan approach. round them all up and send them back. 866-55-press. i bet you we are going to hear that. i am not sure this is even...
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putting political capitol behind this stuff in a way that i think gun control advocates at the start of this after that speech obama gave at newton it was so surprising to everybody didn't expect him to make a policy speech. those folks would not have expected the amount of push and pressure obama is putting behind this at this point. >> saying this is the right thing to do. we may not get it. we are going to fight for it. we also are told without knowing all of the details right, that it's not going to be just legislation he is asking the congress for but there will be steps that he believes he can take himself. >> right. the earlier thejz interesting about 19 executive actions, you can take a lot of these related to how data is crossed across the government how bad begun violence is tracked and research is allowed even to things like a new atf director, alcohol tobacco and firearms which we haven't had but there are a lot oftions obama says he can take that sort of will help the government to study gun violence, know more about it. prosecutor criminals. the president said he is do
putting political capitol behind this stuff in a way that i think gun control advocates at the start of this after that speech obama gave at newton it was so surprising to everybody didn't expect him to make a policy speech. those folks would not have expected the amount of push and pressure obama is putting behind this at this point. >> saying this is the right thing to do. we may not get it. we are going to fight for it. we also are told without knowing all of the details right, that...
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anything that deals with obama, he's got a really big mouth. >> okay. andy. this issue is above who happens to sit in the white house. don't you? >> yeah. whoever like or dislike in politics, i think this is really something that's a lasting power, the kind of power the president seems to be claiming for himself here is one that will be left to his successor >> bill: thank you. we will keep on top of this. i know you will, too. >> this is "the bill press show." going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ music ] >> chatting with you live at current.com/billpress, this is "the bill press show," live on your radio and current tv. . >> all right. 33
anything that deals with obama, he's got a really big mouth. >> okay. andy. this issue is above who happens to sit in the white house. don't you? >> yeah. whoever like or dislike in politics, i think this is really something that's a lasting power, the kind of power the president seems to be claiming for himself here is one that will be left to his successor >> bill: thank you. we will keep on top of this. i know you will, too. >> this is "the bill press show."...
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what is his number 1 priority that he feels that he has got some political capitol now that he wants to spend on? >> guns first. >> so probably to me. recess we will see formally what the the obama an minstration wants but the big haul because it's largely been written off. >> the con venal wisdom from democrats and other gun rights activists is you can try and follow up but don't hold your breath. >> the votes aren't there. the bigger long-term push, it was the unfulfilled promise to latino advocates. it is something that the administration believes many republicans will be on board with also this time around is immigration reform overhaul. >> immigration reform. some of the conditions some of the absolute must steps that have to be part of that. we will get into that. on bloomberg news on today's "full-court press," you are welcome to join the conversation on twitter at bp show or give us a call at 866-55-press. >> heard around the country and seen on current tv, this is the bill press show. with twizzlers the twist you can't resist. building up to this. >>bill shares his views, no
what is his number 1 priority that he feels that he has got some political capitol now that he wants to spend on? >> guns first. >> so probably to me. recess we will see formally what the the obama an minstration wants but the big haul because it's largely been written off. >> the con venal wisdom from democrats and other gun rights activists is you can try and follow up but don't hold your breath. >> the votes aren't there. the bigger long-term push, it was the...
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they get obama and rom network there. >> i think obama has been on it twice. he knows. >> the news media is mixing tabloid and serious journalism. >> dylan buyers, thank you forgive using us time here? >> chief pubba. >> radio meets television "the bill press show," now on current tv. [ music ] in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. i've worn lots of hats, but i've always kept this going. i've been doing politics now for a dozen years. (vo) he's been called the epic politics man. he's michael shure and his arena is the war room. >> these republicans in congress that think the world ends at the atlantic ocean border and pacific ocean border. the bloggers and the people that are sort of compiling the best of the day. i do a lot of looking at those people as well. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them right? current tv, it's been all building up to this. >>bill shares his views, now it'
they get obama and rom network there. >> i think obama has been on it twice. he knows. >> the news media is mixing tabloid and serious journalism. >> dylan buyers, thank you forgive using us time here? >> chief pubba. >> radio meets television "the bill press show," now on current tv. [ music ] in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. i've worn lots of hats, but i've always kept this going. i've been doing...
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we will go down to south carolina carolina, talk to one of the leading political reporters. have you heard about this 3d printer? it is revolutionary new device. what can you do with it. should we worry about it? we will find out about that as well. president obama is fuming mad over the latest figures on sexual assault in the military. >> that's where we start. but first, this is the full court press other headlines to think about, tom hanks is the most trusted person in america. >> that's according to a new reader's digest poll on people that have earned most confidence of americans. the top 4 most trusted are out of hollywood. sandra bullock and meryl streep in there. >> you can trust those holy wood stars. they never do anything wrong. good lord. >> the top washingtonian is to make the list michelle obama at 19. jimmie carter is the most trusted former politician at number 24. president obama is down to number 65. >> what? >> get out of here. >> yeah. we can trust jimmie carter. we just can't trust him to be president. >> right. tom hanks? really? >> number 1. >> no cont
we will go down to south carolina carolina, talk to one of the leading political reporters. have you heard about this 3d printer? it is revolutionary new device. what can you do with it. should we worry about it? we will find out about that as well. president obama is fuming mad over the latest figures on sexual assault in the military. >> that's where we start. but first, this is the full court press other headlines to think about, tom hanks is the most trusted person in america....
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>> right. >> and, therefore, no -- they are not going to -- no political adverse political impact on the republican party. i think they are dead wrong. >> it's baffling. >> i always kid you because your job at huffington post is to tell the bad news and you have the delaney downer every day real working americans who are hurt by different government policies. these are the people going to be hurt by this secquester. >> this is a downer. this will happen next month if you are receiving long-term unemployment insurance, you are going to have your benefits cut 10% as a result of this. >> bill: they are not that much to begin with? >> $300 a week. if you have been out of work for 6 months or longer, you are already strapped. >> that's about 2 million people. definitely 10% screwed. then there is 4 million fewer meals on wheels deliveries. so, i have no doubt that we will be able to find some old people who are hungry as a result of this which is kind of amazing. it's amazingly bad. but on the other happened, some of that money might not -- there are sessions where it's fungible, the dc o
>> right. >> and, therefore, no -- they are not going to -- no political adverse political impact on the republican party. i think they are dead wrong. >> it's baffling. >> i always kid you because your job at huffington post is to tell the bad news and you have the delaney downer every day real working americans who are hurt by different government policies. these are the people going to be hurt by this secquester. >> this is a downer. this will happen next month...
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. >> i here that and it's bad for the country and the political system. a couple of points the headline in "the new york times" is, g.o.p., front page g.o.p. blocks vote on hagel in the senate. i was thinking when i saw that that sort of sums up everything we have read about the republican party for the last five years. headline always g.o.p. blocks. g.o.p. kills. g.o.p. opposes. have you ever seen a headline in the last five years where the freakin republican party does anything positive? no. >> it's a good point. >> it is a party of no. it's always get in the way. get in the way. get in the way of every good idea. the other thing i want to point out is i ran into former senator kent conrad last night and current senator max bachus last night. we were having dinner in the same restaurant with our wives, valentine's day and senator bachus said he is convinced chuck hagel will be the next secretary of defense, that they will have another vote on february 26th, and a couple of republicans will feel they have done their thing, they have delayed it for 10 day
. >> i here that and it's bad for the country and the political system. a couple of points the headline in "the new york times" is, g.o.p., front page g.o.p. blocks vote on hagel in the senate. i was thinking when i saw that that sort of sums up everything we have read about the republican party for the last five years. headline always g.o.p. blocks. g.o.p. kills. g.o.p. opposes. have you ever seen a headline in the last five years where the freakin republican party does...
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big money in politics now. >> right. >> his political arm is accepting contributions that don't have to be disclosed. people who have given more than $200. there is nothing legally that compels them to follow their donors the way a campaign with and the other, you know interesting thing is in the first quarter they raised just short of $5 million. about half of what the dnc raised. so you have to figure they are going to have to raise a lot more than that. >> you point out the first challenge they were given was, okay. help us line up the votes for universal background checks. right? >> right. >> for the president's gun safety agenda. there could be no tougher challenge than that. as tough as immigration reform or even climate change, the gun thing is going to be the tough theist of all of the tests. >> right. they went straight to the diamond slopes. >> bill: right. >> it was not -- it was not easy. getting republicans democrats to vote for something before they moved in to a much tougher task of convincing republicans to do so. >> reed epstein with us from politico tall talking abo
big money in politics now. >> right. >> his political arm is accepting contributions that don't have to be disclosed. people who have given more than $200. there is nothing legally that compels them to follow their donors the way a campaign with and the other, you know interesting thing is in the first quarter they raised just short of $5 million. about half of what the dnc raised. so you have to figure they are going to have to raise a lot more than that. >> you point out the...
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i don't think this is political at all. i think this is do you know to the basic right, constitutional rights that we have as americans and whether or not they are being infringed upon by our government. >> caller: right. and one other point on this issue of the patriot act i would like to remind the lady from atlanta. in 2008 when barack obama ran for president in the primary, he said -- impair a phrasing but he said we should take a close look at that patriot act and repeel some aspects where it goes into personal information what has his administration done? i am a conservative but an american first and there is no democrat america. it was no republican america. there is only the united states of america. and the bill of rights. >> that's what separates us from the rest of the world, mr. press. >> bill: thank you, tom. and you remind me of what a senate candidate named barack obama said in boston paraphrasing tom where he said -- remember? there is no such -- there are no blue states or red states. there are just the uni
i don't think this is political at all. i think this is do you know to the basic right, constitutional rights that we have as americans and whether or not they are being infringed upon by our government. >> caller: right. and one other point on this issue of the patriot act i would like to remind the lady from atlanta. in 2008 when barack obama ran for president in the primary, he said -- impair a phrasing but he said we should take a close look at that patriot act and repeel some aspects...
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political attack ever. >> ben smith is in the studio with us, editor and chief in buzzfeed buzzfeed. join the conversation at any time. your thoughts about the young senator from florida. 866-55-press, or send your twitter comments to@bp show.com. >> he did not drink a beer. i asked if he was comfortable having a beer but he said absolutely but i think he wasn't feeling like it. we had buds in front of us. >> on another issue, a lot of talk, i was at the whitehouse briefing yesterday where jay carney really got hammered with questions about this department of justice memo on drones. i guess is the obama administration trying to have it both ways? in other words, they say bush was wrong to use that authorization that congress gave him for torture and rendition. thank you. but it's okay for us to use that same authorization for killing american citizens overseas with drones with no trial, no due process. >> there is certainly moments in this administration, you know, if george bush had done this in the new york times or wherever it was and just in general. >> bill: this is one of them.
political attack ever. >> ben smith is in the studio with us, editor and chief in buzzfeed buzzfeed. join the conversation at any time. your thoughts about the young senator from florida. 866-55-press, or send your twitter comments to@bp show.com. >> he did not drink a beer. i asked if he was comfortable having a beer but he said absolutely but i think he wasn't feeling like it. we had buds in front of us. >> on another issue, a lot of talk, i was at the whitehouse briefing...
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now that he has been out there with obama on hurricane sandy, now that he praised president obama and fem cismd for the great response opinion hurricane sandy, now that he has come out and embraced obamacare and the expansion of medicaid now that he's been rejected at the conservative political action committee, never invited by cpac to address them, does this mean as democrats we have to be behind chris cristie? emily's list said no yesterday. we will talk to them a little bit later about it because they point out that chris cristsie anti-choice, that chris christie is anti-marriage equality that chris christie is certainly anti-teacher and anti-public employee. on the other hand, he's proven to be a pretty moderate republican and that he is not afraid fobreak with his party and stand up with president obama when he think obama is doing the right thing. et cetera the only leading republican in the country today, i think, who does that. right? >> yeah. >> bill: not john boehner, not mitch mcconnell, not john freakin opinion mccain, not lipped see graham. you know, you name it. not joh
now that he has been out there with obama on hurricane sandy, now that he praised president obama and fem cismd for the great response opinion hurricane sandy, now that he has come out and embraced obamacare and the expansion of medicaid now that he's been rejected at the conservative political action committee, never invited by cpac to address them, does this mean as democrats we have to be behind chris cristie? emily's list said no yesterday. we will talk to them a little bit later about it...
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is this personal or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them, right? vo: the war room monday to thursday at 6 eastern alright, in 15 minutes we're going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ music ] as this is "the full court press: the bill press show," live on your radio and on current tv. >> so mpo
is this personal or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them, right? vo: the war room monday to thursday at 6 eastern alright, in 15 minutes we're going to do the young turks. i think...